Palm Pre on June 6th for $200: It's official (opens in new tab)

One nit, though: don't let the really terrible website and phone service get you down. If you go to a T-mobile store, everything's easy, fast, and efficient, and the reps are either knowledgeable or willing to ask someone who is, on the spot. It's a totally different experience from that on the T-mobile customer service line, and I wasn't able to use the website to do anything I wanted. At the time, what I wanted was to buy a G1 full price, but I would have settled for "with a contract", and I never managed to get it done, finally going to Wal-mart and picking one up for slightly less anyway, and then using AT&T for a few months before the lack of 3G service (the G1 doesn't do AT&T 3G) drove me back to T-mobile. However, it hasn't been useful since I came back to them, either. The in-store service is really excellent at every store I've been to, so just go there physically.

Although I don't plan on getting the Palm Pre, I'm quite happy with my iPhone, I think it would be very beneficial for Apple to get a "real" competitor in that space. One that can truly challenge Apple to innovate and to continuously improve.

Having said that, the Palm Pre is unreleased and many questions are still to be answered; especially delicate are those related to battery and performance ("the snappy"). It also seems a bit fat.

Oh god shoot me now. They're even worse than Rogers, who at least have good customer service. I suppose if Bell has a good data package, I might be able to deal with them; I'm pretty good with accents so I suppose I can do customer service in India for a few more years.